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Aztec Ruins are, in fact, not Aztec at all, but are part of the Chaco Culture. This site, about 1/3 to 1/2 excavated, is part of the Chaco Culture World Heritage Area - whc.unesco.org/en/list/353 .
The main part of the Chaco Culture WHA is in Chaco Canyon (and is spectacular), with a few outlying and difficult...

This is in the "resort" area at the reserve. The pool is reported to occasionally support a family of otters. The room/cottages are along the stream lower down and on the hillside higher up (and visible in this image. This area is secondary growth jungle, having been selectively logged 25-30 or so years before. Occasio...

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Tabin Wildlife Reserve is an area in eastern Sabah, (Borneo) Malaysia with a good diversity of flora and fauna. Best known for its pygmy elephants, it is also excellent for birds and other mammals. Gibbons, Orangutang, Civets, Leopard cat, otter, macaques, giant flying squirrels, crested serpent eagle, Borneo Falconet....

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A slightly overcast morning on the Acropolis in December. The cruise ship tourists had not yet arrived, so the population of visitors was fairly low. Alas, had I done this 2 days earlier, it would have been even more spectacular - blue sky and even fewer people :-)
Still, a lot fewer than the summer visitation numbers...

Deer Cave, in Gunung Mulu National Park, is one of the largest cave passages and chambers in the world. Home to millions of bats and cave swiftlets, it is impressive for its size, and the evening bat exodus. Due to its size and the overall speed of water passage in the caves in Mulu, there are not always the stalactite...